Sentimentales, ofendidos, mediocres y agresivos

In this letter-style work, Girauta warns us against the current forms of sentimental and ideological manipulation. Briefly, he explains how the left wing has become cultural hegemony. Understanding it requires an approach to post-Marxism. Specifically, to the linking of apparently independent causes or struggles. Why has the right wing not imposed a single cause of its own in recent decades? Why do they always drag themselves regarding values? Why do they always end up internalizing premises that they initially resist? There is one main reason: they have disengaged from the cultural war and do not believe in the power of discourse. In that sense, the Right is infinitely more materialistic than the new Left. An important warning: the cultural war that Girauta defends does not seek to pass cultural hegemony to the right. Its objective is to preserve the gradually distorted founding principles of liberal democracy: equality, freedom of expression, burden of proof, respect for the private sphere, etc. Turned into a permanent generator of antagonism, the democratic left has mutated its nature. This transformation, added to the insane renunciation of the imaginary of conservatives and liberals, explains the return of censorship, cultural cancellation, neo-puritanism, environmental coercion and the infantilization of society. Also, the paradox of young people always on the side of the established power while believing to be fighting it. They have been trained not to tolerate contrary opinions, which they interpret as violence. Meanwhile, the big technological corporations foster social hostility and individual frustration. “Instability is the breeding ground for the fabrication, stimulation, and articulation of new causes that will never be satisfied. That is structural in the new hegemony. This is how it was obtained and this is how it remains: radicalizing democracy, encouraging conflict, sowing antagonisms.» Juan Carlos Girauta